You can’t bring your AC to space, unfortunately, but innovative flow boiling and condensation research might lead to lighter, more efficient heating and cooling on spacecraft.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Liquid
Displaying all articles
A mechanical engineer explains why you need to go with the flow. The TSA pronouncement that peanut butter is a liquid is scientifically sound.
Have you wondered why cats are so nimble and seem to fit perfectly in cups, boxes, and other small places? Or how cats communicate with humans? A physicist and a psychologist explain.
Bubbles sinking, oceans levitating… It may seem straight out of science fiction, but it can be done in a laboratory.
Mathematicians make a splash with new theory that could lead to breakthroughs in 3D printing, climate science and forensics.
It may have been a cultural tradition to use tempera paint that contained traces of milk on bodies according to a discovery at Sibudu Caves in KwaZulu Natal.
Top contributors
-
Assistant Professor in Mathematics, University of Warwick
-
Honorary Professor, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Rheology Researcher, Université Paris Cité
-
Professeur de ESPCI Paris, Chaire AXA imagerie biomédicale, membre de l'Institut Langevin, spécialiste de l'interaction onde-matière, ESPCI Paris
-
Betty Ruth and Milton B. Hollander Family Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
-
Doctorant, ESPCI Paris
-
Professor Emerita of Psychological and Brain Science, Boston University
-
University Professor, Bergles Professor of Thermal Science, and Director of the Center for Multiphase Flow Research and Education, Iowa State University
